Charlize Theron Says She’ll Never ‘Gain 40 Pounds’ for a Role Again: ‘You Can’t Take It Off’

Charlize Theron is setting limits on physical transformations for roles going forward.

The Academy Award winner told Allure that she will “never, ever” gain significant weight for a role again after putting on 40 pounds for “Monster” and later adding extra weight for her role in “Tully.”“I will never, ever do a movie again and say, ‘Yeah, I’ll gain 40 pounds.’ I will never do it again because you can’t take it off,” Theron said.

“When I was 27, I did ‘Monster‘.

I lost 30 pounds, like, overnight.

I missed three meals, and I was back to my normal weight.”However, for the 2018 Diablo Cody feature “Tully,” it took Theron a year to get back to her normal weight prior to the film.

At one point, Theron said she even called a doctor to find out why she couldn’t shed the excess pounds, telling them at the time, “I think…

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